Mechanism for assorting solid substances.



D. SWAROVSKI & H. WEIS. MECHANISM FOR ASSORTING SOLID SUBSTANCES. IZAPPLIOATION FILED mums, 1913.

1 ,O98,062, Patented May 26, 1914- m ff 5991,5015

i 9 R0 5 m y Z o 14 Z 7 1o 1 11 H L [002g 0M JWM 1 T STTS DANIEL SWAROVSKI AND HUGO WEIS, OF WATTENS, NEAR HALL, AUSTRIA- HUNGARY, ASSIGNORS TO THE FIRM OF GLASSGHLEIFEREI WATTENS A. KOSMANN'D. SWAROVSKI & 00.,OF WATTENS, TYROL, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

MECHANISM FOR ASSORTING SOLID SUBSTANCES.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, DANIEL SwAnovsm and HUGO WEIS, citizens of Austria, resid- The principal object of our invention is to provide a simply constructed and efliciently operating apparatus .whereby articles of the character referred to may be quickly assorted in great quantities, the assorting process being carried on continuously.

The invention comprises the several novel structural features and combinations of parts particularly claimed, and fully described in the following specification reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a front elevational view partly in section of the preferred form of apparatus; and Fig. 2 is an end elevational view partly in section of the same.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by reference characters, 10 denotes the machine frame carrying standards 11 in which the driving shaft 12 is rotatably mounted. The shaft 12 is driven from any suitable source of power (not shown). Fixed to the shaft 12 is a cam 9 provided with a peripheral cam projection g which is designed to act against one arm of a lever i fulcrumed to a rod or bar It extending transversely of the machine. Pivotally secured to the other arm of the lever 91, intermediate its ends, is a link '70 which pivotally connects at 13, the two arms of a lever Z each of said arms having a fulcrum on a bar 14. The two arms of thelever Z extend longitudinally of the machine, and the free end of each'arm Z engages the lower bifurcated end of a vertically reciprccable rod a, guided in its reciprocating movements in the bed plate of the machine. The upper end of each bar a is provided with a cross head m, and engaging the upper edge of each cross head Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patentedlliaiy 26, 1914. 1

Application filed. June 28, 1913. Serial No 776,454. 1

is a roller 15 forming an axis on which the series of assorting compartments, hereinafter more fully described, may revolve.

The assorting device proper is divided into a series of compartments 1) by the vertical partitions e, in each of which an openng 0 is formed, the several openings c being staggered, as shown. The compartments 6 are arranged in succession and for all practical purposes form a unit divided by the vertical partitions 6. Each compartment is provided with an inclined wall a and a straight or horizontal wall cl which are alternately the upper and lower walls of the compartment, dependent on the position of the assorting device. The walls a and cl in each compartment are perforated, the perforations of the walls in the successive compartments progressively increasing a is the inclined wall and leads directly to the opening 0 in the partition 6 between the first and second assorting compartments. In the second assorting compartment the upper wall d is the straight wall, while the lower wall a is the inclined wall and leads directly to the opening 0 in the vertical partition 6 between the second and third compartments. When the apparatus is in the position shown in Fig. 1 the partitions 6 will prevent the contents of one compartment from passing to an adjacent compartment. In the apparatus illustrated but three compartments numbered from 1 to 3 are shown, although in practice it is usual to employ a considerably greater number of such compartments. It will be noted that the construction is such that an inclined wall of one compartment communicates with the straight wall of the adjacent compartment through the opening 0 in the vertical partition 6 dividing said compartments from each other. 7

Mounted on a pivot g in a block 16 at each side of the machine is a linkp, the freeend of which is provided with an eye taking over a pin 0 projecting from one of the end walls of the assorting device 6. The pin 0 is to one side of the center of said end wall, so that the link 7) is normally biased as shown in Fig. 2.

The articles to be assorted are fed to the apparatus through a chute f (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) this chute f leading to the first compartment and being intended to charge said compartment each time the assorting device is in the position shown in Fig. 1. It is intended that the articles shall be asserted by passing through the successive compartments, articles of a certain degree of fineness dropping through the walls a, (Z of one compartment, articles of a different degree of fineness passing through the walls of the adjacent compartment and so on throughout the apparatus. Those articles which are too coarse to fall through the perforations in the walls a, (Z of the one compartment are caused to pass into the next compartment through the orifices c in the vertical walls 0, by oscillating the entire assorting device proper through an arc of 180, and this will be clearly understood from the following description of the operation of the device.

Let it be assumed that at the starting point the device is in the position shown in Fig. 1 and that a full charge of articles greatly varying in size has been admitted to the first assorting compartment Z) through the feed chute f. As soon as the charge enters this first compartment a certain quantity of the contents will fall through the perforations in the lower horizontal wall (Z. As the shaft 12 revolves continuously the cam projection g will encounter the free arm of the pivoted lever 2', depressing its other arm whereby the link will be drawn downwardly causing the free ends of the lever arms Z to rise. By this act-ion the bars a are elevated thus raising the entire assorting apparatus Z Owing to the connection of the apparatus Z) to the link 29, the apparatus b will be caused to turn on the rollers 15 and oscillate through an arc of 180. The assorting apparatus will move in the direction of the curved arrow I (Fig. 2) and the link 29 will move from the full line position to the dotted line position. The asserting apparatus has now been reversed, so that in compartment 1 the inclined wall a is at the bottom and the straight wall (Z is at the top, in compartment 2 the inclined wall a is at the top and the straight wall d is at the bottom, and in compartment 3 the straight wall cl is at the top and the inclined wall a is at the bottom. By the oscillating movement just described, such of the articles in compartment 1 as are small enough to pass through the perforations in the wall a, and (Z, have fallen out of this compartment, while the remainder of the articles have passed through the orifice c in the vertical partition 0 and into the adjacent compartment 2. As soon as the charge reaches compartment 2 a certain part thereofwill fall through the perforated wall (Z. After the assorting apparatus has been oscillated as described, the weight thereof is sufiicient to cause the lever z' to assume its initial position after the cam projection g has cleared the same, so that the lever arm 2' rides on the circumference of the cam. In Fig. 2 the assorting apparatus Z) is shown in dotted lines in the intermediate position of its oscillation, and the weight 7- serves to partly counterbalance the weight of the asserting mechanism. when it returns the arm i to the periphery of the cam. The cam projection g now again encounters the free end of the lever 2' raising it as before, and causing the asserting mechanism tooscillate in the direction indicated by the curved arrow II in Fig. 2. By this oscillation the parts are again caused to assume the position indicated in Fig. 1, compartment 1 being empty, compartment 2 also being emptied partly by its contents falling out through its perforated walls a and d, and by the remainder of the contents passing through the orifice c in the vertical partition 6 and into the compartment 3. The compartment 1 is now again charged from the chute f and the operation is thus continued indefinitely.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An assorting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having perforated walls, orificed partitions between said compartments, the orifices in said partitions being staggered in relation to each other, and means for oscillating said compartments.

2. An asserting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having perforated inclined walls, orificed partitions between said compartments, the orifices in said partitions being staggered in relation to each other, and means for oscillating said compartments.

3. An assorting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments each of which has a straight perforated wall and an inclined perforated wall, a partition between each two compartments, said partition having an orifice therein positioned at a point where the inclined wall of one compartment alines with the straight wall of an adjacent compartment.

t. An asserting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having perforated walls, orificed partitions between said compartments, the orifices in said partitions being staggered in relation to each other, and means whereby said compartments are oscillated as a unit alternately in opposite directions in an arc of one hundred eighty degrees.

5. An asserting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having their walls provided with perforations progressively increasing in size, orificed partitions between said compartments, the orifices in said partitions being staggered in relation to each other, and means for oscillating said compartments in an arc of one hundred eighty degrees.

6; An assorting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments each thereof having a straight perforated wall and an inclined perforated wall, partitions between said compartments, each of said partitions having an orifice therein and said orifices being staggered in relation to each other, and means for reversing the positions of said straight and perforated walls.

7 An assorting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having oppositely disposed straight and inclined perforated walls, means for raising said compartments, and means for oscillating said compartments while in raised position. v

8. An assorting mechanism, embodying therein a series of successive compartments having oppositely disposed straight and in clined perforated Walls, and continuously operating mechanism for intermittently oscillating said compartments in alternate directions in an arc of one hundred eighty degrees.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL SWAROVSKI;

, HUGO WEIS.

Witnesses:

RICHARD LEMP, J OHANNA' STERN.

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